Save You Tonight

Chapter Eight.

Louis, Niall, and Zayn came to pick me up for a three day trip to Long Side Beach down in California. I didn't want to excuse myself from work but after talking to Shannon and my boss they were more than happy to give me the days off. I have never met such an understanding man. I couldn't of found such a better boss.

"You're so lucky to be leaving to a beach! I havent seen sand since I was a kid. I thought I could detach from it but thinking about the warm sun hitting me I'm starting to regret leaving my hometown!" Shannon said, I invited her for a shopping spree because most of my clothes were pants and long sleeved shirts. I needed summer dresses, shorts, sandals and what not for California. It was nothing like Seattle. She was also helping me pack at home.

"You should go visit your hometown soon. You said its been three years. Why not?" I said.

"Because that would mean leaving work and I like work. Keeps my mind off of things. Plus, I'm still in school." she put in my dresses.

School, its something I hardly thought about lately. I graduated high school, but I never bothered to think about college in the fall. I don't even know what I want to be in my life! Luckily Shannon had parents to help out with the tuition. I'm sure mine are just happy I'm out of their hair.

What an embarrassment you are to this family.

I shook the thought out of my head. No need to make myself depressed all over again. I packed some underwear and bikini's, hoping it will just be a great vacation. I asked Louis what they were going to tell Harry when three out of the five leave without him. Louis told me Harry hasn't had time for them either. I feel like he was hiding something, the fact that all the time he wasn't giving them was put into Sarnia.

I hated even thinking of them together. I zipped up my suitcase and put it on the trunk of my bed. "All ready!" I said.

"This one's packed too. Oh I also put in your sunscreen, you have no idea how hot the world really is Alaine, you will want to come back here and crawl into a puddle of rain." she joked.

I thanked her and she went straight to school, something about needing to talk to her professor about how cruel a six-hundred word essay in a day is. Always a little freedom fighter. I ordered some pizza, hungry since this morning. Tomorrow I leave for a beach house. How amazing is that? A bit nervous too. I've never shown so much skin in a year than I will in the next three days.

I heard knocks and got up with money in my hand. I opened the door to find a black haired, blue eyed, tall, muscular boy delivering my pizza. I asked how much and when I was going to close the door he stopped it, startling me.

"Alaine?" he said.

I looked at him, curiously. How'd he know my name? "Yes?"

"I knew it was you! Do you remember me?" he said with a huge smile dancing on his face. It was actually kind of cute.

"Um I'm sorry, have we met before? My faulty memory fails me completely sometimes..." I trail off trying to scan his face. Have I seen him before? I don't think I have. I don't remember anyone much from high school. Maybe someone I served at work? Darn it why couldn't I pin him to a certain name?

"Mark Dawson. We had Pre-Calculus senior year together?" he said, eyeing me playfully.

Markus Dawson, sat right next to me in the back. I remember him now. I think I talked to him once, it was about borrowing a pencil, pen for a math class was a big no-no and he was the closest with three pencils sitting on his desk.

"Oh yes, I remember now! You're a pizza boy?" I regretted it immediately, I sounded so stuck up when I wasn't.

He laughed, thank goodness. "Yeah, but I go to school here in Seattle. I didn't know you moved here. I was for sure everyone went to that stupid community college and if not New York, which was where everyone wanted to go apparently."